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- Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:33 pm
#484694
If you draw a line on a map of England between the mouth of the river Tees and Exmouth you have the Tees-Ex line, a line that divides Highland England from Lowland England...its a geographical certainty that never fails, we English just choose not to point it out when you cross it.
If you draw a line between Chester and say, the Humber you have what you could call a North/South divide, this is open to debate, but is a recognised ecconomical phenomenon often mentioned as part of some kind of regional stereotype-ing.
However where does the line run that divides those who know that a Turnip is a big yellow vegetable? from those that don't.
A veg that for years was pressed into service as a carvable thing for making laterns at Halloween, before the invention of the pumpkin (circa 1997). Its traditionally eaten with mash and mince or haggis, or if ya posh a steak pie.
The scottish meal Haggis and Neep, as in TUR-NEEP involves a yellow veg does it not?
Where is this line that divides us sane people from those who belive a turnip is a sweed... i.e a white small thing with a purple root. sweeds are white as far as i am concerned and i'm from the north originally. Turnip is of course yellow, and involves a certain amount of knife control to turn into a lantern. The smell of burning turnip is something to behold, it define this time of year.
The scottish Neep is the same thing as a Turnip, its big and yellow, hard as rocks until boiled for about 40 minutes and makes you fart.
All the bloody idiots i now choose to surround myself with down here in the south say that a sweed is big and yellow and is only fit for feeding to the sheep...
the daft buggers
what colour is a turnip and where do you live?
dave
If you draw a line between Chester and say, the Humber you have what you could call a North/South divide, this is open to debate, but is a recognised ecconomical phenomenon often mentioned as part of some kind of regional stereotype-ing.
However where does the line run that divides those who know that a Turnip is a big yellow vegetable? from those that don't.
A veg that for years was pressed into service as a carvable thing for making laterns at Halloween, before the invention of the pumpkin (circa 1997). Its traditionally eaten with mash and mince or haggis, or if ya posh a steak pie.
The scottish meal Haggis and Neep, as in TUR-NEEP involves a yellow veg does it not?
Where is this line that divides us sane people from those who belive a turnip is a sweed... i.e a white small thing with a purple root. sweeds are white as far as i am concerned and i'm from the north originally. Turnip is of course yellow, and involves a certain amount of knife control to turn into a lantern. The smell of burning turnip is something to behold, it define this time of year.
The scottish Neep is the same thing as a Turnip, its big and yellow, hard as rocks until boiled for about 40 minutes and makes you fart.
All the bloody idiots i now choose to surround myself with down here in the south say that a sweed is big and yellow and is only fit for feeding to the sheep...
the daft buggers
what colour is a turnip and where do you live?
dave
